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Spirit Guides.

Hi all, I am new here! I have been motived by my advancing age, and depression surrounding it, to seek more information about what may or may not happen to me in the ever-nearing future.

My first question is about spirit guides. How do you feel about them, do you have experience with them?

It is a relatively new concept to me and I have been thinking about reoccurring dreams (fitting in with the board topic) I have had since I was a child, I can't say how young but I don't remember ever not having these dreams. They are always different but similar. I am walking around and interacting with people I know and people I don't know and during the duration of the entire dream someone (a male) is around me the entire time. I don't know the person, like... I don't recognize them, but I do "know" them in the dream. The interesting part of this is that I feel unconditionally loved by them and when I interact around them and feel my shortcomings I somehow know that they love me in spite of my imperfections and they communicate that to me without speaking. I feel the love in the dream and it continues when I am awake.

Prior to my recent (as in the last few weeks) explorations, I had just thought of the dreams as a hug from my brain because I don't have a lot of love in my life. However, now I am more curious if they are something else. Last night I had a similar dream with the difference being that I was looking at them and where they had always been male they were flipping between male and female leaving me wondering, in the dream, okay are you male or female and the response was a coy facial expression, not words, and the mental thought that it didn't matter.

Anyways, thank you for any responses and I look forward to hearing the thoughts and experiences of others!

Firstly a belated welcome to ALF Somehow the software didn't notify me about your first posting in this thread you've started but I found it when 'house-keeping' this morning. It's good to read with some very interesting and well-described points.

I'm expecting our dreams specialists will soon comment on what you've written about your dream and the subject of spirit guides has been discussed before - I hope there will also be responses about them.

Welcome, dear Angel (for short)! In fact, every one of us has a spirit guide for this lifetime, and we meet with our guides often as our bodies sleep. If indeed you haven't had much love in your waking life, my hunch is that your guide is trying to show you that nevertheless you have a lot of love from the spirit realm! And as for the gender-flipping, all of us experience lifetimes as one gender or the other, since the gender trait is not set. Perhaps he was trying to show that fact to you!